Taking time out of our programme.
Programme = before written = karma
Who wrote and consented to the programme?
We did.

When we look at our life, we find that it has a pattern to it, and so has our behaviour. We acquired a programme that was written by our likes and dislikes. When it is allowed to run, it saps our precious energy for the potential of enlightenment to occur. As a result, we have no time to think clearly.

We need a short break in this pattern of behaviour, don’t we? So just sit for a moment; do nothing and be aware. Just be aware. The senses are naturally wide open to experience – just the one taste of experience, neither liking nor disliking. Feel the facial muscles relax. It only takes a moment.

What a relief. So try it again.

We may find, “I can’t do that! I’m busy!’ This is because the programme has taken us over. Isn’t that scary? This is, in fact, our wonderful moment of enlightenment. We are free in the moment of seeing! We have just meditated!

What a relief. So try it again.

Can we make a habit of coming out of the programming, and enjoying the relief? Certainly. We need to break the meditation. When we meditate, we are in a duality – ‘me’ and the ‘good feeling’. It is said that nobody became enlightened by meditating: enlightenment only occurs when we drop the meditation.

When we stop meditating, there is a moment of non-duality. The realisation of pure consciousness. Truly doing nothing. As Tulku Urgyen advised “short moments, many times”. Everything just drops away – even the meditation. In a meditation session, we may try too hard; when the session ends, a sense of relief from not having to do anything arises. That is the emptiness of pure reality.

Of course, the madness of the programming starts to run again, but gradually we become familiar with this process, and everything seems to loosen. We unbind, and relax naturally. We slow down, enjoy life and become more efficient. We have gone beyond our boundaries.

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… in meditation – In the beginning I rest als “sentient beeing”, as a “man”, as a “thinker” and then it´s like an ice cube melting in water. Awareness recognize Awareness. Something beyond: gender, nationality and even human culture is looking and knowing. A few years ago I´ve heard a zen master saying: “Do you know, what´s the biggest problem with “my” students? – They can´t accept themselves as living buddhas”. Can you visit the realm before you were born a a human beeing? What is “my” “original” face before I was born?